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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Tucker on January 22, 2013, 10:41:24 AM
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WilliamPitt (53,339 posts)
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Important: Some very bad shit went down in Virginia today - Please Read
Virginia GOP Pulls ‘Dirty Trick’ On Inauguration Day
TPM
Democrats in Virginia are accusing state Republicans of taking advantage of a prominent civil rights leader’s trip to Washington for the presidential inauguration to pull a “dirty trick†in order to take control of the state Senate in the 2015 elections.
The state Senate is split 20-20 between Republicans and Democrats. On Monday, while state Sen. Henry Marsh (D) — a 79-year-old civil rights veteran — was reportedly in Washington to attend President Obama’s second inaugural, GOP senators forced through a mid-term redistricting plan that Democrats say will make it easier for Republicans to gain a majority.
With Marsh’s absence, Senate Republicans in Richmond had one more vote than Senate Democrats and could push the measure through. The new redistricting map revises the districts created under the 2011 map and would take effect before the next state Senate elections in Virginia and would redraw district lines to maximize the number of safe GOP seats.
(snip...and for an added twist of the sick-****ers knife...)
“On motion of Senator Stosch, the Senate adjourned in memory or General Thomas J. ‘Stonewall’ Jackson at 4:10 p.m. to convene Tuesday, January 22, 2013,†read the official minutes of the legislative day.
The rest: http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2013/01/republicans-dirty-trick-inauguration.php
Great day today.
Back to work tomorrow.
Rust never sleeps.
So the evil rethugs waited until a democrat was out to lunch and then scheduled a vote on gerrymandering.
And then after the vote...
geomon666 (5,574 posts)
10. The Senate adjourned in memory or General Thomas J. ‘Stonewall’ Jackson
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Nice.
:lmao:
You gotta love it.
quakerboy (10,298 posts)
12. Any reason that
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The Democrats cant just wait till one of the R's is out with a cold and switch it back?
It's got to hurt being so DUmb.
lonestarnot (70,533 posts)
14. So can't we do something like sue or stop them through injunction. I thought gerrymandering
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was supposed to be illegal.
How do you think the the democrat party got control of California!!!
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Cha (120,784 posts)
27. Go back to your cave.
Missed it. :(
Ikonoklast (20,590 posts)
51. Lincoln should have hanged every Secessionist politician and army officer as traitors.
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This country wouldn't be in the shape it is if he had done so.
I agree with you. President Lincoln should have hung all of the democrat leaders.
Indyfan53 (5 posts)
53. Petition the White House!
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We must encourage the President to use his executive power to stop this! This is also happening in Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and other blue states that could go red.
I smell a mole.
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So the dem's didn't have any idea this "plan" was coming through? They did and your elected (D) Marsh thought it more important to go schmmoozzzz with the Obama's than perform his work. Too bad!
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quakerboy (10,298 posts)
12. Any reason that
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The Democrats cant just wait till one of the R's is out with a cold and switch it back?
Yeah. His name is Bob McDonnell. Sucks to be you.
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Cry me a river clowns. :rotf:
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Choices have consequences, bitches.
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I want to hear WeeWillyWetsHimself say, "recess appointment". :-)
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Ikonoklast (20,590 posts)
51. Lincoln should have hanged every Secessionist politician and army officer as traitors.
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This country wouldn't be in the shape it is if he had done so.
Had that been done the KKK might never have been created. Scores of Democrat icons would be "butterfly effect" -ed out of existence had that happened.
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Ikonoklast
Lincoln should have hanged every Secessionist politician and army officer as traitors.
Yes, because the one thing you want to do after a surrender is to keep killing those who just surrendered. That will cause the people of that former country to trust that you'll keep your word when you said that the killing is over.
Primitives are brilliant.
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Had that been done the KKK might never have been created. Scores of Democrat icons would be "butterfly effect" -ed out of existence had that happened.
The Democrat Party would have been reeling for a century. No way to hold blacks down with segregation and then socialism.
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Hey DUmmies, see what happens when you're not on the job like you're supposed to be......well, in your case probably more gets done but when your politicians don't go to work.....well....own it.
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Had that been done the KKK might never have been created. Scores of Democrat icons would be "butterfly effect" -ed out of existence had that happened.
Considering that the KKK grew out of reconstruction era occupation, hanging people would have most likely had the same effect.
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Great day today.
The woods are lovely, deep and dark,
dead drunk and passed out on a bench in a park.
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H5, Delmar!
:rotf:
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The woods are lovely, deep and dark,
dead drunk and passed out on a bench in a park.
:-)
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I want to hear WeeWillyWetsHimself say, "recess appointment". :-)
Here you go -- Let's play 'Compare and Contrast' !
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002120533
OK, then...Outstanding.
President Obama is planning to announce today that, in addition to his recess appointment of former Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray as the first director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, he will also use his recess appointment powers to place Department of Labor Attorney Sharon Block, labor lawyer Richard Griffin, and NLRB counsel Terence Flynn to the National Labor Relations Board.
Like the CFPB, Republicans have spent the past year blocking nominations to the NLRB in an effort to keep the agency from functioning. Those efforts would have paid off soon, since after Craig Becker’s term on the board expired this week, the NLRB would have been reduced to two members, which is the number it had for more than two years from 2008 to 2010. This effectively shuts down the board, since the Supreme Court ruled in 2010 that two members does not constitute a legal quorum, and thus, a two-member board can’t make binding rulings.
All 47 Senate Republicans have warned Obama of a “constitutional conflict†should he choose to use his recess appointment powers — authority he is well within his right to use, as ThinkProgress’ Ian Millhiser noted yesterday — but it was Chief Justice John Roberts, a noted conservative, who suggested the president should make recess appointments to keep the NLRB functioning, as ThinkProgress reported in 2010.
Obama’s appointment of Block, Flynn, and Griffin is important, too, because it boosts the board’s membership to five, protecting its quorum even if member Brian Hayes follows through on his threats to quit. Preserving its right to quorum ensures that its rulings will not be thrown out on legal challenges, as more than 600 cases were by the Roberts Court in 2010.
More: http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/01/04/397537/breaking-obama-recess-appoints-nlrb/
Excellent.
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the Senate adjourned in memory of General Thomas J. ‘Stonewall’ Jackson at 4:10 p.m. to convene Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Before you DUmbasses besmirch the memory of Stonewall Jackson you might want to read a little bit about him. You have been brainwashed into view anyone who wore a gray or butternut uniform with disdain. This shows your stupidity and not your intelligence. General Jackson did more for blacks than most of you have ever done.
He may not have broken their physical bonds, but he taught them to read which broke the most important bonds: their mental bonds. You DUmmies, on the other hand, constantly fight to keep people of color bound both physically and mentally.
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William Whoreson should realize imitation is the highest form of flattery and the VA GOP was imitating the NY legislature and governor who passed their midnight assault on 2A rights.
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William Whoreson should realize imitation is the highest form of flattery and the VA GOP was imitating the NY legislature and governor who passed their midnight assault on 2A rights.
Well now. I was wondering from whom the pure and virtuous republicans learned such uncharacteristic tactics.
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Well now. I was wondering from whom the pure and virtuous republicans learned such uncharacteristic tactics.
Every dirty trick we know, we learned from the democrat party.
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About darn time the Republicans steal a play from the DNC playbook!
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But it was OK for the Wisconsin senator democrat party members in good standing to run to Illinois so as to thwart the will of the people. In fact, they were heroes.
The low IQers are stripping the thin veneer that was an average intelligence away quickly in 0's second term.
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Must suck to be a DUmmy
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Must suck to be a DUmmy
It always does, when all is said and done.
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Must suck to be a DUmmy
Most, if not all, do. Well...the males anyway.